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This week we will be prepairing and competing in the Skills USA challenge. Ill be one of the first 4 to compete since our program is new to the Skills USA program and I cant wait...I say bring it on, lets see what Ive learned and lets see if I can apply it and lets see if I have what it takes to be worthy of being a tech that someone would hire.

Ive been working on a resume that they want and require. That was the hard part. I know what Ive done and I know what I know but selling me on paper seemed to be a problem.

About 8 to 10 local appliance service managers with our instructors and school officials will be judging while 4 of us compete for one spot at the Skills USA nationals that will be held in Kansas City.

Skills USA is an awesome program. I went to my local vo-tech for Carpentry, and I also competed in skills. I ended up taking first at districts and states. Then going to Kansas City to compete for nationals. Unfortunately some us got kick out for breaking curfew. It was still a blast and i learned alot.

Ray Bay you have the power of the ApplianceJunk posse backing you up. Do us proud!

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The competition was today. 9 stations, including a brazing station. Even the Stations I went thru that I havent had classes for yet, I did good in everything, except I ran out of time on a dryer.

I took first place.

Ill be heading to Kansas City in June to do it all over again.

Gotta give a huge thank you to my wife to be, My Instructors, all the judges who volenteered (all are techs, service managers and regional managers in the appliance business) and This site for the info I got from it and used today

About the icons: The beer is tip link, if a tech saves ya some money buy em a 6 pack. The small green square=personal message. The green dot is a link to my web page on appliance repair and other general BS I love to post. The letter sends me email.I love fan letters! LOL